1 DayOfTheWeek, Month DD, YYYY / The Tcpdump Group
2 Summary for 1.11.0 libpcap release (so far!)
4 Use C99 fixed-width integer types, rather than self-defined
5 fixed-width integer types, in rpcap code.
6 Remove an always-false pointer test from snf_read().
7 Clean up DECnet address handling.
8 struct pcap: Update buffer type from "void *" to "u_char *".
9 Remove dead code that supported SITA ACN devices.
11 Merge four header files into gencode.c.
12 Remove DAG card support on Windows as Linux is the only
13 platform currently supported.
14 Remove code related to Riverbed TurboCap card.
15 Riverbed TurboCap hardware has reached EOA as of Jun 30 2014.
16 Remove dead code that supported Septel devices.
17 Remove outdated code related to AirPcap HW.
18 The Riverbed AirPcap Product has reached End of Availability
19 (EOA) as of December 31, 2017
20 Mind netmap support in pcap_lib_version().
21 Make pcap_compile() error messages more uniform and consistent.
23 Add LINKTYPE_ETW/DLT_ETW.
24 Add LINKTYPE_NETANALYZER_NG/DLT_NETANALYZER_NG (pull request
26 Add LINKTYPE_ZBOSS_NCP/DLT_ZBOSS_NCP.
27 Add LINKTYPE_USB_2_0_LOW_SPEED/DLT_USB_2_0_LOW_SPEED,
28 LINKTYPE_USB_2_0_FULL_SPEED/DLT_USB_2_0_FULL_SPEED,
29 LINKTYPE_USB_2_0_HIGH_SPEED/DLT_USB_2_0_HIGH_SPEED
30 Add LINKTYPE_AUERSWALD_LOG/DLT_AUERSWALD_LOG.
31 Add LINKTYPE_ZWAVE_TAP/DLT_ZWAVE_TAP.
32 Add LINKTYPE_SILABS_DEBUG_CHANNEL/DLT_SILABS_DEBUG_CHANNEL.
33 Add LINKTYPE_FIRA_UCI/DLT_FIRA_UCI.
34 Rename LINKTYPE_IPMB_LINUX/DLT_IPMB_LINUX to
35 LINKTYPE_I2C_LINUX/DLT_I2C_LINUX, as it's really just an
36 encapsulation of I2C, and is also being used for HDMI DDC.
37 Keep DLT_IPMB_LINUX around as a #define for backwards
40 Add support for Block Ack Req and Block Ack frame types (pull
42 Deprecate pcap_compile_nopcap().
43 Add support for filtering packets encapsulated with VXLAN (pull
45 Eliminate trailing space in bpf_image() result.
46 Fix DECnet packet filtering on big-endian hosts.
47 Require "vpi" and "vci" values to be within valid ranges.
48 Initialize the scratch memory store to 0.
49 Require "[wlan] dir" integer value to be within range.
50 Fix the != comparison for ATM and MTP field values.
51 Deprecate bpf_filter().
52 Require a live capture for all Linux BPF extensions.
53 Have "outbound" mean Tx only for DLT_SLIP.
54 Filter Linux SocketCAN frames in userland if necessary.
55 Enable "[wlan] dir/type/subtype" for DLT_PPI.
56 Require "(iso|isis) proto" values to be within valid ranges.
57 Use the correct IS-IS PDU type offset for DLT_C_HDLC.
58 Use the correct bit mask for IS-IS PDU type value.
59 Fix the "|" and "&" operators of the "byte" primitive.
60 Require "byte" argument value to be within range.
61 Require "link proto" argument value to be within range.
62 Require "(ip|ip6) proto" value to be within range.
64 Support user names and passwords in rpcap:// and rpcaps:// URLs.
65 Add a -t flag to rpcapd to specify the data channel port; from
66 another incorporate-remote-capture project. (issue #1120)
67 rpcapd: Refine SSL options in printusage().
68 Fix a possible buffer overflow (Coverity CID 1619148).
70 Document a standard format for writing out BPF filter programs.
71 Add a README.hurd.md file.
72 Explain "any" device better in pcap_create(3PCAP).
73 Cross-reference some man pages better.
74 Actualize README.dag and make it Markdown.
75 Add a README.snf.md file.
76 pcap-filter(7): Make a number of assorted improvements.
77 pcap_lib_version(3PCAP): Add details and examples.
78 Discuss Linux BPF extensions in the man pages.
79 Note endianness in pcap_compile(3PCAP) and pcap_lookupnet(3PCAP).
80 man: Document devices, interfaces and "any" better.
82 Apply GNU Hurd support patch from the Debian package.
83 CI: Introduce and use LIBPCAP_CMAKE_TAINTED.
84 Remove all remaining support for AOS (4.3BSD Unix), BSD/OS, DOS,
85 HP-UX before 10.20, IRIX, {OSF/1, Digital Unix, Tru64 Unix}, SINIX,
86 SunOS 3.x, 4.x and 5.x before 5.3.2, and Ultrix.
87 Add a new test program for pcap_activate().
88 Make NetBSD build warning-free.
89 Make Sun C build warning-free.
90 Make FreeBSD, Linux and macOS builds warning-free.
91 Print MAC addresses in findalldevstest.
92 Parameterize the interface name in reactivatetest.
93 When necessary, trust the OS to implement ffs().
94 At build time require a proof of suitable snprintf(3) implementation in
95 libc (and document Solaris 9 and MinGW as unsupported because of that).
96 Makefile.in: Update the .c.o build rule (Remove hacks for old SunOS 4).
97 CMake: Skip snprintf(3) tests when cross-compiling; test whether
98 check_c_source_runs() with a trivial program and, if it doesn't
99 work, don't run tests that use it.
100 autogen.sh: Allow to configure Autoconf warnings.
101 autogen.sh: Delete all trailing blank lines at end of configure.
102 Autoconf: Add support for libnl-tiny with pkg-config.
103 Autoconf: Fix building of something-only libpcap.
104 CI: Implement "make check".
105 Fix autotools and CMake issues with snprintf test and sanitizers.
107 filtertest: Add "-l" flag to use Linux BPF extensions.
108 filtertest: Use ntohl() on the netmask to fix the -m option.
109 filtertest: Add support for stdin as "-" to the -F option.
111 Support network capture devices too.
112 Fix a few device activation bugs.
113 Count and timestamp packets better.
114 Add kernel filtering, fix userland filtering.
116 Use getprotobyname_r() correctly on OpenBSD.
118 Do not use ether_hostton() from musl libc.
119 Fix propagation of getprotobyname_r() errors.
121 Look for ethers(5) in /boot/system/settings/network/.
123 Always set PCAP_IF_CONNECTION_STATUS_NOT_APPLICABLE.
124 In dag_findalldevs() handle known errors better.
125 Trust dag_get_stream_erf_types() to be available.
126 Require the API to have 64-bit streams support.
127 Make device descriptions more useful, make dagN conditional.
128 Use PCAP_ERROR_NO_SUCH_DEVICE more in dag_activate().
129 Validate capture device names better.
130 Enumerate streams without trying to lock them.
131 If the environment variable ERF_FCS_BITS is set, require it to be either
132 0 or 16 or 32. Likewise for ERF_DONT_STRIP_FCS (either 0 or 1).
133 Remove FCS quirks specific to 4.2S and 4.23S.
134 Fix packet filtering with low snaplen.
135 Fix ps_drop for stream drop counters.
136 Add experimental packet transmit support.
138 Fix packet filtering with low snaplen.
139 Require SNF_VERSION_API >= 0x0003.
140 Improve device descriptions and flags.
141 Fill pcap_if_t in more consistently.
143 DayOfTheWeek, Month DD, YYYY / The Tcpdump Group
144 Summary for 1.10.6 libpcap release (so far!)
146 Fix "tcpdump -i <n>" for something-only libpcap builds.
147 Remove some unneeded includes.
148 pcapint_find_function() changed to return "void *" to avoid
150 gencode: Fix an undefined behavior in gen_mcode().
151 gencode: Add a missing free() in gen_scode().
153 Make the chunk allocator's alignment more general and
154 platform-independent.
155 IEEE 802.11: Fix three undefined behaviors in grammar.y.
157 Fix check for mac80211 phydev.
158 Don't create monitor-mode interface if we're capturing on one.
159 Expand the table of DSA tag types to include all current types.
160 Fix an error message when deleting a monN interface.
162 Fix detection and enablng of zero-copy supporrt.
163 Fix errors in the zero-copy code.
165 Fix not to ignore logical interfaces in fad-gifc.c and
168 Fix filtering for VLAN-tagged frames.
171 Capture file writing:
172 Don't close the output stream if it's stdout, just flush it.
174 Explicitly document that closing a pcap_t for a savefile opened
175 with pcap_fopen_offline() will close the standard I/O stream.
176 Building and testing:
177 Makefile.in: Include instrument-functions.c in the release tarball.
178 CMake: Fix libnl usage with pkg-config.
179 CMake: Fix build with CMake 3.31.
180 CI: Report CMake version in builds.
181 CI: Visual Studio 2022 builds added, including ARM64 builds;
182 Visual Studio 2015 builds dropped.
183 Don't build with sslutils.c if we don't have a TLS library.
184 Build on Windows with a newer version of OpenSSL.
185 CMake: generalize handling of non-x86 Windows architectures.
186 CI: use the -A flag for all Visual Studio generators.
187 Remove the fuzzing props from the release tarball.
188 Autoconf: Use AC_SYS_YEAR2038_RECOMMENDED when possible if the
189 environment variable BUILD_YEAR2038 = yes (via autogen.sh)
191 Friday, August 30, 2024 / The Tcpdump Group
192 Summary for 1.10.5 libpcap release
194 Spell WirelessHART details properly.
195 Mark pcap_vasprintf() as printf-like.
196 Finalize moving of bpf_filter.c. (GH #1166)
197 Remove an unneeded argument from gen_mcode6().
198 Don't do some Berkeley YACC workarounds with YACC releases not
200 Use correct data types rather than int in some cases.
201 Squelch compiler warning in grammar.c.
202 Fix findalldevtest compilation if IPv6 isn't enabled.
203 Rename helper routines for pcap modules to have names beginning with
204 pcapint_, to avoid namespace collisions for code linking statically
206 Avoid casting hack for the Windows cleanup-on-exit routine.
207 Use %zu format for one case of printing a size_t.
208 Fix some Coverity errors.
209 Fix availabilities of some functions to match reality.
210 pcap: make the seconds and microseconds/nanoseconds fields unsigned.
211 Remove the unused pcap-rpcap-int.h header file.
213 Make some static variables thread-local; fixes issue #1174.
215 Improve reporting of some invalid filter expressions.
216 Return an error from pcap_compile() if the scanner fails to initialize.
217 Optimizer fix from Archit Shah to recompute dominators after
218 moving code (#976); fixes #945 (although the resulting filter
220 Optimizer fix from Archit Shah to mark value as unknown when store
221 of that value is deleted (#972); fixes #143, #434, #436, #437,
224 Properly return warnings.
225 Don't use DLT_LINUX_SLL2 for anything other than the "any" device.
226 Avoid 32-bit unsigned integer overflow in USB captures. Fixes
227 issues #1134 and #1205.
228 Fix a file descriptor leak.
229 Properly report warnings about unknown ARPHRD_ types.
230 Fix DLT_CAN_SOCKETCAN handling of CAN FD.
231 Add CAN XL support to DLT_CAN_SOCKETCAN.
232 Clean up the code that sets the "real" ("original") length for
233 isochronous USB transfers.
234 Avoid unnecessary blocking on recvmsg() in the Bluetooth monitor and
237 Handle BPF returning ESRCH for unknown devices.
238 List the "any" device if it's supported.
239 Report {non-existent zone}/{interface} errors appropriately.
240 Allow attaching to links owned by a non-global zone. (Based on
242 Fix AF_LINK handling on illumos.
244 Redid the availability macros to be closer to what Apple's doing
245 in recent SDKs, including tagging pcap-namedb.h routines.
246 Fix the install name of the installed shared library to have a
247 full path when building with CMake.
248 Fix universal builds.
250 Convert the module to C. Fixes issue #1114.
251 Address a few compiler warnings. Fixes issue #1114.
252 Fix various build problems. Fixes issue #1114.
253 Report non-existent devices correctly.
254 Fix handling of packet statistics.
255 Fix packet timestamping.
256 Fix packet filtering with low snaplen.
257 Improve connection status reporting.
258 Add support for promiscuous mode.
259 Detect DLTs and loopback capture support at run time.
260 Report IEEE 802.11 as PCAP_IF_WIRELESS.
262 Fix internal handling of "not supported" error codes from NPF.
263 Work around a bug in Npcap 1.00 in case of driver version mismatch.
264 Don't call WSACleanup() when handling a failed WSAStartup().
265 BSD, macOS, AIX, Solaris 11, Linux:
266 Add a new error PCAP_ERROR_CAPTURE_NOTSUP, for use if a capture
267 mechanism is not present, in the hopes that, for example,
268 attempts to capture on Windows Services for Linux 1, in which
269 the NT kernel attempts to simulate Linux system calls but does
270 not support packet sockets, can get an error that better
271 indicates the underlying problem.
273 Format an error message if we run out of memory.
275 Fix count of dropped packets.
276 Make sure we don't overflow when rounding up the TLV length.
278 Handle routines removed in at least some OpenSSL libraries.
279 CVE-2023-7256: Clean up sock_initaddress() and its callers to avoid
280 double frees in some cases.
281 Don't define SOCKET ourselves; instead, define PCAP_SOCKET as int
282 on UN*Xes and as SOCKET on Windows.
283 CVE-2024-8006: Fix pcap_findalldevs_ex() not to crash if passed a
284 file:// URL with a path to a directory that cannot be opened.
286 Handle DLT_/LINKTYPE_ mapping better, to handle some
287 OpenBSD-specific link types better.
288 Treat if_tsoffset as signed in pcapng files, as the spec says.
289 Don't try to fix the "real" length for isochronous USB
290 transfers if the number of USB descriptors is too large.
291 Reject pcap files where one of the reserved fields in the
292 "link-layer type plus other stuff" is non-zero.
293 Building and testing:
294 Add a configure option to help debugging (--enable-instrument-functions).
295 Improved tests and error reporting for uses of pkg-config, and
296 improve help message.
298 With CMake, install headers in CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR rather
300 Build libpcap.a before building test programs.
301 Print address family numerically, as well as symbolically,
303 Fail with suggestions, rather than failing over to no capture
304 support, if no capture mechanism was found. Fixes issue #1016.
305 Don't indent comments in Make, as that may cause them not to be
306 recognized as comments.
307 Don't check for libssl if we aren't going to use it.
308 Better handle enabling and disabling of sanitizers. Fixes issue
310 CMakeLists.txt: Print "Symlinking: /some/path to ..." conditionally.
311 Evaluate CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX at install time.
312 cmake: Update the minimum required version to 2.8.12 (except Windows).
313 cmake: suppress CMP0042 OLD deprecated warning.
314 Makefile.in: Add the releasecheck target.
315 Cirrus CI: Add the "make releasecheck" command in the Linux task.
316 Makefile.in: Add the whitespacecheck target.
317 Cirrus CI: Run the "make whitespacecheck" command in the Linux task.
318 Autoconf: Update config.{guess,sub}, timestamps 2024-01-01.
319 Autoconf: Update the install-sh script to the 2020-11-14.01 version.
320 Compile with '-Wnull-pointer-subtraction',
321 '-Wunused-but-set-parameter', and '-Wunused-but-set-variable' in
322 devel mode if supported.
323 Don't ignore spaces between CMAKE_C_FLAGS and DPDK_C_FLAGS with
325 Use noreturn and __format__ with XL C 7.0 and later.
326 Check for the same -W flags in autotools and CMake.
327 Autoconf: Add autogen.sh, remove configure and config.h.in and put
328 these generated files in the release tarball.
329 Autoconf: Get the size of a time_t.
330 Fix propagation of cc_werr_cflags() output.
331 Makefile.in(s): Fix the depend target.
332 mkdep: Exit with a non-zero status if a command fails.
333 Fix HCI_CHANNEL_MONITOR detection with musl libc.
334 Extend "make shellcheck" onto mkdep too.
335 Add initial support for building with TinyCC.
336 Address all known compiler warnings specific to illumos, Linux, NetBSD,
337 Solaris and Sun C; in CI expect warnings specific to TinyCC only.
339 Update and fix pcap-filter man page.
340 Add a README.haiku.md file.
341 Document pcap-config better.
342 Man page formatting and prose fixes.
343 Rename doc/README.Win32.md to doc/README.windows.md.
344 Update pcap-savefile man page to match the Internet-Draft for
346 Fix CMake issues for target used by other projects.
347 Explain "any" device better in pcap_open_live(3PCAP).
349 Note in man pages that errbuf arguments must point to an error
351 Note that if pcap_findalldevs() fails it sets *alldevsp to NULL;
352 there's no devices list to free.
353 Explain "other addresses" in pcap_findalldevs(3PCAP).
354 Document pcap_lookupnet(3PCAP) a bit better.
356 Friday, April 7, 2023 / The Tcpdump Group
357 Summary for 1.10.4 libpcap release
359 Fix spaces before tabs in indentation.
361 Fix name of launchd service.
363 Document use of rpcapd with systemd, launchd, inetd, and xinetd.
364 Building and testing:
365 Require at least pkg-config 0.17.0, as we use --static.
366 Get rid of the remains of gnuc.h.
367 Require at least autoconf 2.69.
368 Update config.{guess,sub}, timestamps 2023-01-01,2023-01-21.
370 Thursday, January 12, 2023 / The Tcpdump Group
371 Summary for 1.10.3 libpcap release
373 Sort the PUBHDR variable in Makefile.in in "ls" order.
374 Fix typo in comment in pflog.h.
375 Remove two no-longer-present files from .gitignore.
376 Update code and comments for handling failure to set promiscuous
377 mode based on new information.
378 Building and testing:
379 install: Fixed not to install the non-public pcap-util.h header.
380 pcap-config: add a --version flag.
381 Makefile.in: Add some missing files in the distclean target.
383 Saturday, December 31, 2022 / The Tcpdump Group
384 Summary for 1.10.2 libpcap release
386 Use __builtin_unreachable() in PCAP_UNREACHABLE.
387 Use AS_HELP_STRING macro instead of AC_HELP_STRING in the
388 configure scripts, to avoid deprecation warnings.
389 Change availability tags in pcap.h to make it easier to
390 arrange for it to be used in Darwin releases.
391 Use AS_HELP_STRING for --enable-remote.
392 Fix some formatting string issues found by cppcheck.
393 Various small code and comment cleanups.
394 Use PCAP_ERROR (defined as -1) rather than explicit -1 for
395 functions the documentation says return PCAP_ERROR.
396 Remove unused code from the filter compiler.
397 Use _declspec(deprecated(msg)) rather than __pragma(deprecated)
398 for Windows deprecation warnings, so the message that was
400 diag-control.h: define PCAP_DO_PRAGMA() iff we're going to use it.
401 Use "%d" to print some signed ints.
402 Use the Wayback Machine for a removed document in a comment.
403 Add some const qualifiers.
404 RDMA: Use PRIu64 to print a uint64_t.
405 "Dead" pcap_ts from pcap_open_dead() and ..._with_tstamp_precision():
406 Don't crash if pcap_breakloop() is called.
408 Fix pcap_dispatch() to return number of packets processed, rather
410 If we get an error writing the packet header, don't write the
412 Put PFLOG UID and PID values in the header into host byte order
413 when reading a LINKTYPE_PFLOG file.
414 Put CAN ID field in CAN pseudo-headers for LINUX_SLL2, as we do
416 Fix incorrectly-computed "real" length for isochronous USB
417 transfers when reading savefiles.
418 Don't crash if pcap_can_set_rfmon() is called.
419 Fix pcap_offline_read() loop.
421 Never process more than INT_MAX packets in a pcap_dispatch() call,
422 to avoid integer overflow (issue #1087).
423 Improve error messages for "no such device" and "permission
425 SITA: Fix a typo in a variable name.
427 Get PFLOG header length from the length value in the header.
428 Support all the direction, reason, and action types supported by
429 all systems that support PFLOG.
430 Don't require PFLOG support on the target machine in order to
431 support PFLOG filtering (also fixes issue #1076).
432 Expand abbreviations into "proto X" properly.
433 gencode.c: Update a comment about the VLAN TPID test.
434 Add the minimum and maximum matching DLTs to an error message.
436 Fix memory leak in capture device open (pull request #1038).
437 Fix detection of CAN/CAN FD packets in direction check (issue
439 Fix double-free crashes on errors such as running on a kernel with
440 CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP not configured (issue #1054).
441 Use DLT_CAN_SOCKETCAN for CANbus interfaces (issue #1052; includes
442 changes from pull request #1035).
443 Make sure the CANFD_FDF can be relied on to indicate whether a
444 CANbus packet is a CAN frame or a CAN FD frame
445 Improve error message for "out of memory" errors for kernel
446 filters (see issue #1089).
447 Fix pcap_findalldevs() to find usbmon devices.
448 Fix handling of VLAN tagged packets if the link-layer type is
449 changed from DLT_LINUX_SLL to DLT_LINUX_SLL2 (see issue #1105).
450 Always turn on PACKET_AUXDATA (see issue #1105).
451 We require 2.6.27 or later, so PACKET_RESERVE is available.
452 Make sure there's reserved space for a DLT_LINUX_SLL2 header
454 Correctly compute the "real" length for isochronous USB transfers.
455 Don't have an eventfd descriptor open in non-blocking mode, so as
456 not to waste descriptors.
457 netfilter: Squelch a narrowing warning (To be look at before 2038).
458 BPF capture (*BSD, macOS, AIX, Solaris 11):
459 Fix case where a device open might fail, rather than falling back
460 to a smaller buffer size, when the initial buffer size is too
462 Use an unsigned device number to iterate over BPF devices, to
463 squelch a compiler warning.
465 Fix handling of LINKTYPE_HDLC/DLT_HDLC.
467 Fix unaligned accesses in rpcapd (pull request #1037).
468 Fix code to process port number.
469 Clean up findalldevs code in rpcapd.
470 Clean up bufferizing code.
471 Fix a file descriptor/handle leak in pcap_findalldevs_ex()
472 (Coverity CID 1507240).
473 Improve error messages for host and port resolution errors.
474 Fix connect code not to fail if both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are
476 Improve connect failure error message.
477 Provide an error message for a bad authentication reply size.
478 For link-layer types with host-endian fields in the header, fix
479 those fields if capturing from a server with a different byte
481 Suppress temporarily the warnings with "enable remote packet capture".
483 Add support for NdisMediumIP (pull request #1027).
484 Don't require applications using pcap to be built with VS 2015 or
486 Use the correct string for the DLL VersionInfo.
487 Remove unnecessary DllMain() function.
488 Correctly handle ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION from
489 PacketGetTimestampModes() (indicate that WinPcap or an older
490 version of Npcap is probably installed).
491 Fix use-after-free in some cases when a pcap_t is closed.
492 Make sure an error is returned by pcap_create_interface() if
493 PacketOpenAdapter() fails.
494 Return an error if the driver reports 0 timestamp modes supported.
495 Close the ADAPTER handle for some errors in
496 pcap_create_interface().
497 Get rid of old unmaintained VS project files.
498 Fix deprecation warning for pcap_handle().
499 Npcap is now at npcap.com, not npcap.org.
500 Make sure "no such device" and "no permission to open device"
501 errors show up in pcap_activate(), not pcap_create() (fixes,
502 among other things, tcpdump -i <interface-number>).
503 npcap: squelch deprecation warnings for kernel dump mode.
505 Implement pcap_lib_version(), as now required.
506 Handle negative or too-large snaplen values.
507 Fix various build issues and warnings.
508 Building and testing:
509 Update configure-time universal build checks for macOS.
510 Update config.guess and config.sub.
511 If we look for an SSL library with pkg-config in configure script,
512 try pkg-config first.
513 If we have pkg-config and Homebrew, try to set pkg-config up to
514 find Homebrew packages.
515 Handle some Autoconf/make errors better.
516 Use "git archive" for the "make releasetar" process.
517 Remove the release candidate rcX targets.
518 Fix compiling on Solaris 9/SPARC and 11/AMD64.
519 Address assorted compiler warnings.
520 Fix cross-building on Linux for Windows with mingw32 for Win64
521 (pull request #1031).
522 Properly set installation directory on Windows when not compiling
524 Fix configure script checks for compiler flags.
525 Give more details if check for usable (F)Lex fails.
526 Fix compiling with GCC 4.6.4.
527 Don't use add_compile_options() with CMake, as we currently don't
528 require 2.8.12, where it first appeared.
529 Don't provide -L/usr/lib for pkg-config --libs in pkg-config.
530 Fix error message for inadequate Bison/Berkeley YACC.
531 configure: correctly do some DPDK checks.
532 Only use pkg-config when checking for DPDK.
533 Allow the path in which DPDK is installed to be specified.
534 Use pkg-config first when checking for libibverbs.
535 CMake: fix check for libibverbs with Sun's C compiler.
536 Have CMake warn if no capture mechanism can be found.
537 Don't do stuff requiring 3.19 or later on earlier CMakes.
538 Squelch some CMake warnings.
539 Fix diag-control.h to handle compiling with clang-cl (issues
541 Cleanup various leftover cruft in the configure script.
542 Fix building without protochain support. (GH #852)
543 Check for a usable YACC (or Bison) and {F}lex in CMake, as we do
545 Only check for a C++ compiler on Haiku, as that's the only
546 platform with C++ code, and make sure they generate code for
547 the same instruction set bit-width (both 32-bit or both 64-bit)
549 On Solaris, check the target bit-width and set PKG_CONFIG_PATH
550 appropriately, to handle the mess that is the D-Bus library
551 package (issue #1112).
552 Fix generation of pcap-config and libpcap.pc files (issue #1062).
553 pcap-config: don't assume the system library directory is /usr/lib.
554 pcap-config: add a --static-pcap-only flag.
555 Cirrus CI: Use the same configuration as for the main branch.
556 Add four libpcap test files.
557 Update Npcap SDK to 1.13.
558 Makefile.in: Use TEST_DIST, like for tcpdump.
559 Remove awk code from mkdep.
560 Cirrus CI: Add the libssl-dev package in the Linux task.
561 Cirrus CI: Add the openssl@3 brew package in the macOS task.
562 Get "make shellcheck" to pass again.
563 CMake: Build valgrindtest only if Autoconf would.
564 CMake: use ${CMAKE_INSTALL_SBINDIR} rather than just sbin.
565 CMake: use NUL: as the null device on Windows.
566 autoconf: fix typo in test of macOS version.
567 Makefile.in: Add two missing files in EXTRA_DIST.
568 autotools, cmake: provide an rpath option if necessary.
569 configure: get rid of the attempt to auto-run PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG.
570 configure: use PKG_CHECK_MODULES to run pkg-config.
572 Add README.solaris.md.
573 Add SCTP to pcap-filter(7).
574 Note that = and == are the same operator in filters (issue #1044).
575 Update INSTALL.md, README.md, and README.solaris.md.
576 Update and clean up CONTRIBUTING.md.
577 Trim documentation of support for now-dead UN*Xe and older
578 versions of other UN*Xes.
579 Move the "how to allocate a LINKTYPE_/DLT_ value" documentation to
582 Move README.capture-module to the web site.
583 Improve some protocol details in pcap-filter(7).
584 Refine "relop" notes in pcap-filter(7).
585 In pcap-filter(7) "domain" is an id.
586 Discuss backward compatibility in pcap-filter(7).
587 Other improvements to pcap-filter(7).
588 Document pcap_breakloop(3PCAP) interaction with threads better.
589 Document PCAP_ERROR_NOT_ACTIVATED for more routines.
591 Wednesday, June 9, 2021:
592 Summary for 1.10.1 libpcap release:
594 Fix "type XXX subtype YYY" giving a parse error
596 Add PCAP_AVAILABLE_1_11.
597 Building and testing:
598 Rename struct bpf_aux_data to avoid NetBSD compile errors
599 Squelch some compiler warnings
600 Squelch some Bison warnings
601 Fix cross-builds with older kernels lacking BPF_MOD and BPF_XOR
602 Fix Bison detection for minor version 0.
603 Fix parallel build with FreeBSD make.
604 Get DLT_MATCHING_MAX right in gencode.c on NetBSD.
605 Define timeradd() and timersub() if necessary.
606 Fix Cygwin/MSYS target directories.
607 Fix symlinking with DESTDIR.
608 Fix generation of libpcap.pc with CMake when not building a shared
610 Check for Arm64 as well as x86-64 when looking for packet.lib on
613 Refine Markdown in README.md.
614 Improve the description of portrange in filters.
615 README.linux.md isn't Markdown, rename it just README.linux.
617 Support reading version 1.2, which some writers produce, and which
618 is the same as 1.0 (some new block types were added, but
619 that's not sufficient reason to bump the minor version number,
620 as code that understands those new block types can handle them
623 Drop support for text-mode USB captures, as we require a 2.6.27
624 or later kernel (credit to Chaoyuan Peng for noting the
625 sscanf vulnerabilities in the text-mode code that got me to
626 realize that we didn't need this code any more)
627 Bluetooth: fix non-blocking mode.
628 Don't assume that all compilers used to build for Linux support
629 the __atomic builtins
631 Add more information in "interface disappeared" error messages, in
632 the hopes of trying to figure out the cause.
633 Treat ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED as "device was removed".
634 Indicate in the error message which "device was removed" error
636 Report the Windows error status if PacketSendPacket() fails.
637 Use %lu for ULONGs in error message formats.
638 Don't treat the inability to find airpcap.dll as an error.
639 Ignore spurious error reports by Microsoft Surface mobile
640 telephony modem driver
642 Clean up error checking and error messages for server address
645 Tuesday, December 29, 2020
646 Summary for 1.10.0 libpcap release
647 Add support for capturing on DPDK devices
648 Label most APIs by the first release in which they're available
649 Fix some memory leaks, including in pcap_compile()
650 Add pcap_datalink_val_to_description_or_dlt()
651 Handle the pcap private data in a fashion that makes fewer
652 assumptions about memory layouts (might fix GitHub issue #940
654 Fix some thread safety issues
655 pcap_findalldevs(): don't sort interfaces by unit number
656 Always return a list of supported time-stamp types, even if only
657 host time stamps are supported
658 Increase the maximum snaplen for LINKTYPE_USBPCAP/DLT_USBPCAP
659 Report the DLT description in error messages
660 Add pcap_init() for first-time initialization and global option
661 setting; it's not required, but may be used
662 Remove (unused) SITA support
663 Capture file reading:
664 Correctly handle pcapng captures with more than one IDB with a
665 snapshot length greater than the supported maximum
666 Capture file writing:
667 Create the file in pcap_dump_open_append() if it doesn't exist
669 Fix "unknown ether proto 'aarp'"
670 Add a new filter "ifindex" for DLT_LINUX_SLL2 files on all
671 platforms and live Linux captures
672 Add a hack to the optimizer to try to catch certain optimizer
673 loops (should prevent GitHub issue #112)
674 Show special Linux BPF offsets symbolically in bpf_image() and
676 Added support for ICMPv6 types 1-4 as tokens with names
677 Remove undocumented and rather old "ether proto" protocols
678 Catch invalid IPv4 addresses in filters
679 Don't assume ARM supports unaligned accesses
680 Security and other issues found by analysis:
681 Fix various security issues reported by Charles Smith at Tangible
683 Fix various security issues reported by Include Security
684 Fix some issues found by cppcheck.
685 Add some overflow checks in the optimizer
687 Support rpcap-over-TLS
688 Redo protocol version negotiation to avoid problems with old
689 servers (it still works with servers using the old negotiation,
690 as well as servers not supporting negotiation)
691 Error handling cleanups
692 Add some new authentication libpcap error codes for specific
694 Fix some inetd issues in rpcapd
695 Fix rpcapd core dumps with invalid configuration file
696 On UN*X, don't have rpcapd tell the client why authentication
697 failed, so a brute-force attacker can't distinguish between
698 "unknown user name" and "known user name, wrong password"
699 Allow rpcapd to rebind more rapidly (GitHub issue #765)
701 Improve man pages, including adding backward compatibility notes
702 Building and testing:
703 Require, and assume, some level of C99 support in the C compiler
704 Require Visual Studio 2015 or later if using Visual Studio
705 Fix configure script issues, including with libnl on Linux
707 Squelch complaints from Bison about "%define api.pure" being
709 Fix compilation of pcap-tc.c
711 Require PF_PACKET support, and kernel 2.6.27 or later
712 Handle systems without AF_INET or AF_UNIX socket support
713 Get rid of Wireless Extensions for turning monitor mode on
714 Proper memory sync for PACKET_MMAP (may prevent GitHub issue
716 Drop support for libnl 1 and 2.
717 Return error on interface going away, but not if it just went
718 down but is still present
719 Set socket protocol only after packet ring configured,
720 reducing bogus packet drop reports
721 Get ifdrop stats from sysfs.
722 When adjusting BPF programs, do not subtract the
723 SLL[2]_HDR_LEN if the location is negative (special metadata
724 offset), to preserve references to metadata; see
725 https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/480#issuecomment-486827278
726 Report a warning for unknown ARPHRD types
727 Have pcap_breakloop() forcibly break out of a sleeping
729 Add support for DSA data link types
730 For raw USB bus capture, use the snapshot length to set the
731 buffer size, and set the len field to reflect the length
732 in the URB (GitHub issue #808)
733 With a timeout of zero, wait indefinitely
734 Clean up support for some non-GNU libc C libraries
735 Add DLT_LINUX_SLL2 for cooked-mode captures
736 Probe CONFIGURATION descriptor of connected USB devices
737 Treat EPERM on ethtool ioctls as meaning "not supported", as
738 permissions checks are done before checking whether the
739 ioctl is supported at all
741 Cope with getting EPWROFF from SIOCGIFMEDIA
742 Treat EPERM on SIOCGIFMEDIA as meaning "not supported", as
743 permissions checks are done before checking whether the
744 ioctl is supported at all
745 Treat ENXIO when reading packets as meaning "the interface
747 Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
748 down", if the interface was removed during a capture
750 Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
751 Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
752 down", if the interface was removed during a capture
754 Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
755 Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
756 down", if the interface was removed during a capture
758 Treat EIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
759 Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
760 down", if the interface was removed during a capture
762 Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
763 Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
764 down", if the interface was removed during a capture
766 Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
767 Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
768 down", if the interface was removed during a capture
770 Fix loading of BPF kernel extension
771 Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
772 Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
773 down", if the interface was removed during a capture
775 Make the snapshot length work even if pcap_setfilter()
777 Fix compilation on Cygwin/MSYS
778 Add pcap_handle(), and deprecate pcap_fileno()
779 Report PCAP_ERROR_NO_SUCH_DEVICE for a nonexistent device
780 Return an appropriate error message for device removed or
781 device unusable due to a suspend/resume
782 Report a warning for unknown NdisMedium types
783 Have pcap_breakloop() forcibly break out of a sleeping
785 Clean up building DLL
786 Handle CRT mismatch for pcap_dump_fopen()
787 Map NdisMediumWirelessWan to DLT_RAW
788 Add AirPcap support in a module, rather than using
789 WinPcap/Npcap's support for it
790 Report the system error for PacketSetHwFilter() failures
791 Add support for getting and setting packet time stamp types
793 Have pcap_init() allow selecting whether the API should use
794 local code page strings or UTF-8 strings (including error
799 Sunday, July 22, 2018
800 Summary for 1.9.1 libpcap release
801 Mention pcap_get_required_select_timeout() in the main pcap man page
802 Fix pcap-usb-linux.c build on systems with musl
803 Fix assorted man page and other documentation issues
804 Plug assorted memory leaks
805 Documentation changes to use https:
806 Changes to how time stamp calculations are done
807 Lots of tweaks to make newer compilers happier and warning-free and
808 to fix instances of C undefined behavior
809 Warn if AC_PROG_CC_C99 can't enable C99 support
810 Rename pcap_set_protocol() to pcap_set_protocol_linux().
811 Align pcap_t private data on an 8-byte boundary.
812 Fix various error messages
813 Use 64-bit clean API in dag_findalldevs()
814 Fix cleaning up after some errors
815 Work around some ethtool ioctl bugs in newer Linux kernels (GitHub
817 Add backwards compatibility sections to some man pages (GitHub issue
819 Fix autotool configuration on AIX and macOS
820 Don't export bpf_filter_with_aux_data() or struct bpf_aux_data;
821 they're internal-only and subject to change
822 Fix pcapng block size checking
823 On macOS, don't build rpcapd or test programs any fatter than they
825 Fix reading of capture statistics for Linux USB
826 Fix packet size values for Linux USB packets (GitHub issue #808)
827 Check only VID in VLAN test in filters (GitHub issue #461)
828 Fix pcap_list_datalinks on 802.11 devices on macOS
829 Fix overflows with very large snapshot length in pcap file
830 Improve parsing of rpcapd configuration file (GitHub issue #767)
831 Handle systems without strlcpy() or strlcat() better
832 Fix crashes and other errors with invalid filter expressions
833 Fix use of uninitialized file descriptor in remote capture
834 Fix some CMake issues
835 Fix some divide-by-zero issues with the filter compiler
836 Work around a GNU libc bug in pcap_nametonetaddr()
837 Add support for DLT_LINUX_SLL2
838 Fix handling of the packet-count argument for Myricom SNF devices
839 Fix --disable-rdma in configure script (GitHub issue #782)
840 Fix compilation of TurboCap support (GitHub issue #764)
841 Constify first argument to pcap_findalldevs_ex()
842 Fix a number of issues when running rpcapd as an inetd-style daemon
843 Fix CMake issues with D-Bus libraries
844 In rpcapd, clean up termination of a capture session
845 Redo remote capture protocol negotiation
846 In rpcapd, report the same error for "invalid user name" and
847 "invalid password", to make brute-forcing harder
848 For remote captures, add an error code for "the server requires TLS"
849 Fix pcap_dump_fopen() on Windows to avoid clashes between
850 {Win,N}Pcap and application C runtimes
851 Fix exporting of functions from Windows DLLs (GitHub issue #810)
852 Fix building as part of Npcap
853 Allow rpcapd to rebind more rapidly
854 Fix building shared libpcap library on midipix (midipix.org)
855 Fix hack to detect UTF-16LE adapter names on Windows not to go past
856 the end of the string
857 Fix handling of "wireless WAN" (mobile phone network modems) on
858 Windows with WinPcap/Npcap (GitHub issue #824)
859 Have pcap_dump_open_append() create the dump file if it doesn't
860 exists (GitHub issue #247)
861 Fix the maximum snapshot length for DLT_USBPCAP
862 Use -fPIC when building for 64-bit SPARC on Linux (GitHub issue #837)
863 Fix CMake 64-bit library installation directory on some Linux
865 Boost the TPACKET_V3 timeout to the maximum if a timeout of 0 was
867 Five CVE-2019-15161, CVE-2019-15162, CVE-2019-15163, CVE-2019-15164, CVE-2019-15165
868 PCAPNG reader applies some sanity checks before doing malloc().
870 Sunday, June 24, 2018, by mcr@sandelman.ca
871 Summary for 1.9.0 libpcap release
872 Added testing system to libpcap, independent of tcpdump
873 Changes to how pcap_t is activated
874 Adding support for Large stream buffers on Endace DAG cards
875 Changes to BSD 3-clause license to 2-clause license
876 Additions to TCP header parsing, per RFC3168
877 Add CMake build process (extensive number of changes)
878 Assign a value for OpenBSD DLT_OPENFLOW.
879 Support setting non-blocking mode before activating.
880 Extensive build support for Windows VS2010 and MINGW (many many changes, over many months)
881 Added RPCAPD support when --enable-remote (default no)
882 Add the rpcap daemon source and build instructions.
883 Put back the greasy "save the capture filter string so we can tweak it"
884 hack, that keeps libpcap from capturing rpcap traffic.
885 Fixes for captures on MacOS, utun0
886 fixes so that non-AF_INET addresses, are not ==AF_INET6 addresses.
887 Add a linktype for IBM SDLC frames containing SNA PDUs.
888 pcap_compile() in 1.8.0 and later is newly thread-safe.
889 bound snaplen for linux tpacket_v2 to ~64k
890 Make VLAN filter handle both metadata and inline tags
891 D-Bus captures can now be up to 128MB in size
892 Added LORATAP DLT value
893 Added DLT_VSOCK for https://qemu-project.org/Features/VirtioVsock
894 probe_devices() fixes not to overrun buffer for name of device
895 Add linux-specific pcap_set_protocol_linux() to allow specifying a specific capture protocol.
896 RDMA sniffing support for pcap
897 Add Nordic Semiconductor Bluetooth LE sniffer link-layer header type.
898 fixes for reading /etc/ethers
899 Make it possible to build on Windows without packet.dll.
900 Add tests for large file support on UN*X.
901 Solaris fixes to work with 2.8.6
902 configuration test now looks for header files, not capture devices present
903 Fix to work with Berkeley YACC.
904 fixes for DragonBSD compilation of pcap-netmap.c
905 Clean up the ether_hostton() stuff.
906 Add an option to disable Linux memory-mapped capture support.
907 Add DAG API support checks.
908 Add Septel, Myricom SNF, and Riverbed TurboCap checks.
909 Add checks for Linux USB, Linux Bluetooth, D-Bus, and RDMA sniffing support.
910 Add a check for hardware time stamping on Linux.
911 Don't bother supporting pre-2005 Visual Studio.
912 Increased minimum autoconf version requirement to 2.64
913 Add DLT value 273 for XRA-31 sniffer
914 Clean up handing of signal interrupts in pcap_read_nocb_remote().
915 Use the XPG 4.2 versions of the networking APIs in Solaris.
916 Fix, and better explain, the "IPv6 means IPv6, not IPv4" option setting.
917 Explicitly warn that negative packet buffer timeouts should not be used.
918 rpcapd: Add support inetd-likes, including xinetd.conf, and systemd units
919 Rename DLT_IEEE802_15_4 to DLT_IEEE802_15_4_WITHFCS.
920 Add DISPLAYPORT AUX link type
921 Remove the sunos4 kernel modules and all references to them.
922 Add more interface flags to pcap_findalldevs().
923 Summary for 1.9.0 libpcap release (to 2017-01-25 by guy@alum.mit.edu)
924 Man page improvements
925 Fix Linux cooked mode userspace filtering (GitHub pull request #429)
926 Fix compilation if IPv6 support not enabled
927 Fix some Linux memory-mapped capture buffer size issues
928 Don't fail if kernel filter can't be set on Linux (GitHub issue
930 Improve sorting of interfaces for pcap_findalldevs()
931 Don't list Linux usbmon devices if usbmon module isn't loaded
932 Report PCAP_ERROR_PERM_DENIED if no permission to open Linux usbmon
934 Fix DLT_ type for Solaris IPNET devices
935 Always return an error message for errors finding DAG or Myricom
937 If possible, don't require that a device be openable when
938 enumerating them for pcap_findalldevs()
939 Don't put incompletely-initialized addresses in the address list for
940 When finding Myricom devices, update description for regular
941 interfaces that are Myricom devices and handle SNF_FLAGS=0x2(port
943 Fix compilation error in DAG support
944 Fix issues with CMake configuration
945 Add support for stream buffers larger than 2GB on newer DAG cards
946 Remove support for building against DAG versions without STREAMS
947 support (before dag-3.0.0 2007)
949 Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016 mcr@sandelman.ca
950 Summary for 1.8.1 libpcap release
951 Add a target in Makefile.in for Exuberant Ctags use: 'extags'.
952 Rename configure.in to configure.ac: autoconf 2.59
953 Clean up the name-to-DLT mapping table.
954 Add some newer DLT_ values: IPMI_HPM_2,ZWAVE_R1_R2,ZWAVE_R3,WATTSTOPPER_DLM,ISO_14443,RDS
955 Clarify what the return values are for both success and failure.
956 Many changes to build on windows
957 Check for the "break the loop" condition in the inner loop for TPACKET_V3.
958 Fix handling of packet count in the TPACKET_V3 inner loop: GitHub issue #493.
959 Filter out duplicate looped back CAN frames.
960 Fix the handling of loopback filters for IPv6 packets.
961 Add a link-layer header type for RDS (IEC 62106) groups.
962 Use different intermediate folders for x86 and x64 builds on Windows.
963 On Linux, handle all CAN captures with pcap-linux.c, in cooked mode.
964 Removes the need for the "host-endian" link-layer header type.
965 Compile with '-Wused-but-marked-unused' in devel mode if supported
966 Have separate DLTs for big-endian and host-endian SocketCAN headers.
967 Reflect version.h being renamed to pcap_version.h.
968 Require that version.h be generated: all build procedures we support generate version.h (autoconf, CMake, MSVC)!
969 Properly check for sock_recv() errors.
970 Re-impose some of Winsock's limitations on sock_recv().
971 Replace sprintf() with pcap_snprintf().
972 Fix signature of pcap_stats_ex_remote().
973 Initial cmake support for remote packet capture.
974 Have rpcap_remoteact_getsock() return a SOCKET and supply an "is active" flag.
975 Clean up {DAG, Septel, Myricom SNF}-only builds.
976 Do UTF-16-to-ASCII conversion into the right place.
977 pcap_create_interface() needs the interface name on Linux.
978 Clean up hardware time stamp support: the "any" device does not support any time stamp types.
979 Add support for capturing on FreeBSD usbusN interfaces.
980 Add a LINKTYPE/DLT_ value for FreeBSD USB.
981 Go back to using PCAP_API on Windows.
983 Add TurboCap support from WinPcap.
984 Recognize 802.1ad nested VLAN tag in vlan filter.
986 Thursday Sep. 3, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu
987 Summary for 1.7.5 libpcap release
989 Add some allocation failure checks.
990 Fix a number of Linux/ucLinux configure/build issues.
991 Fix some memory leaks.
992 Recognize 802.1ad nested VLAN tag in vlan filter.
993 Fix building Bluetooth Linux Monitor support with BlueZ 5.1+
995 Saturday Jun. 27, 2015 mcr@sandelman.ca
996 Summary for 1.7.4 libpcap release
997 Include fix for GitHub issue #424 -- out of tree builds.
999 Friday Apr. 10, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu
1000 Summary for 1.7.3 libpcap release
1001 Work around a Linux bonding driver bug.
1003 Thursday Feb. 12, 2015 guy@alum.mit.edu/mcr@sandelman.ca
1004 Summary for 1.7.2 libpcap release
1005 Support for filtering Geneve encapsulated packets.
1006 Generalize encapsulation handling, fixing some bugs.
1007 Don't add null addresses to address lists.
1008 Add pcap_dump_open_append() to open for appending.
1009 Fix the swapping of isochronous descriptors in Linux USB.
1010 Attempt to handle TPACKET_V1 with 32-bit userland and 64-bit kernel.
1012 Wednesday Nov. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu/mcr@sandelman.ca
1013 Summary for 1.7.0 libpcap release
1014 Fix handling of zones for BPF on Solaris
1016 clarifications for read timeouts.
1017 Use BPF extensions in compiled filters, fixing VLAN filters
1018 some fixes to compilation without stdint.h
1019 EBUSY can now be returned by SNFv3 code.
1020 Fix the range checks in BPF loads
1022 Various Linux fixes.
1024 Monday Aug. 12, 2014 guy@alum.mit.edu
1025 Summary for 1.6.2 libpcap release
1026 Don't crash on filters testing a nonexistent link-layer type
1028 Fix sending in non-blocking mode on Linux with memory-mapped
1030 Fix timestamps when reading pcap-ng files on big-endian
1033 Saturday Jul. 19, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
1034 Summary for 1.6.1 libpcap release
1035 some fixes for the any device
1036 changes for how --enable-XXX (--enable-sniffing, --enable-can) works
1038 Wednesday Jul. 2, 2014 mcr@sandelman.ca
1039 Summary for 1.6.0 libpcap release
1040 Don't support D-Bus sniffing on OS X
1041 fixes for byte order issues with NFLOG captures
1042 Handle using cooked mode for DLT_NETLINK in activate_new().
1043 on platforms where you can not capture on down interfaces, do not list them
1044 but: do list interfaces which are down, if you can capture on them!
1046 Wednesday December 18, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu
1047 Summary for 1.5.3 libpcap release
1048 Don't let packets that don't match the current filter get to the
1049 application when TPACKET_V3 is used. (GitHub issue #331)
1050 Fix handling of pcap_loop()/pcap_dispatch() with a packet count
1051 of 0 on some platforms (including Linux with TPACKET_V3).
1053 Work around TPACKET_V3 deficiency that causes packets to be lost
1054 when a timeout of 0 is specified. (GitHub issue #335)
1055 Man page formatting fixes.
1057 Wednesday December 4, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu
1058 Summary for 1.5.2 libpcap release
1059 Fix libpcap to work when compiled with TPACKET_V3 support and
1060 running on a kernel without TPACKET_V3 support. (GitHub
1063 Wednesday November 20, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu
1064 Summary for 1.5.1 libpcap release
1065 Report an error, rather than crashing, if an IPv6 address is
1066 used for link-layer filtering. (Wireshark bug 9376)
1068 Wednesday October 30, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu
1069 Summary for 1.5.0 libpcap release
1070 TPACKET_V3 support added for Linux
1071 Point users to the the-tcpdump-group repository on GitHub rather
1072 than the mcr repository
1073 Checks added for malloc()/realloc()/etc. failures
1074 Fixed build on Solaris 11
1075 Support filtering E1 SS7 traffic on MTP2 layer Annex A
1076 Use "ln -s" to link man pages by default
1077 Add support for getting nanosecond-resolution time stamps when
1078 capturing and reading capture files
1079 Many changes to autoconf to deal better with non-GCC compilers
1080 added many new DLT types
1082 Saturday April 6, 2013 guy@alum.mit.edu
1083 Summary for 1.4.0 libpcap release
1084 Add netfilter/nfqueue interface.
1085 If we don't have support for IPv6 address resolution, support,
1086 in filter expressions, what IPv6 stuff we can.
1087 Fix pcap-config to include -lpthread if canusb support is
1089 Try to fix "pcap_parse not defined" problems when --without-flex
1090 and --without-bison are used when you have Flex and Bison
1091 Fix some issues with the pcap_loop man page.
1092 Fix pcap_getnonblock() and pcap_setnonblock() to fill in the
1093 supplied error message buffer
1094 Fix typo that, it appeared, would cause pcap-libdlpi.c not to
1095 compile (perhaps systems with libdlpi also have BPF and use
1097 Catch attempts to call pcap_compile() on a non-activated pcap_t
1098 Fix crash on Linux with CAN-USB support without usbfs
1099 Fix addition of VLAN tags for Linux cooked captures
1100 Check for both EOPNOTSUPP and EINVAL after SIOCETHTOOL ioctl, so
1101 that the driver can report either one if it doesn't support
1103 Add DLT_INFINIBAND and DLT_SCTP
1104 Describe "proto XXX" and "protochain XXX" in the pcap-filter man
1106 Handle either directories, or symlinks to directories, that
1107 correspond to interfaces in /sys/class/net
1108 Fix handling of VLAN tag insertion to check, on Linux 3.x
1109 kernels, for VLAN tag valid flag
1110 Clean up some man pages
1111 Support libnl3 as well as libnl1 and libnl2 on Linux
1112 Fix handling of Bluetooth devices on 3.x Linux kernels
1114 Friday March 30, 2012. mcr@sandelman.ca
1115 Summary for 1.3.0 libpcap release
1116 Handle DLT_PFSYNC in {FreeBSD, other *BSD+Mac OS X, other}.
1117 Linux: Don't fail if netfilter isn't enabled in the kernel.
1118 Add new link-layer type for NFC Forum LLCP.
1119 Put the CANUSB stuff into EXTRA_DIST, so it shows up in the release tarball.
1120 Add LINKTYPE_NG40/DLT_NG40.
1121 Add DLT_MPEG_2_TS/LINKTYPE_MPEG_2_TS for MPEG-2 transport streams.
1122 [PATCH] Fix AIX-3.5 crash with read failure during stress
1124 Introduce --disable-shared configure option.
1125 Added initial support for canusb devices.
1126 Include the pcap(3PCAP) additions as 1.2.1 changes.
1127 many updates to documentation: pcap.3pcap.in
1128 Improve 'inbound'/'outbound' capture filters under Linux.
1129 Note the cleanup of handling of new DLT_/LINKTYPE_ values.
1130 On Lion, don't build for PPC.
1131 For mac80211 devices we need to clean up monitor mode on exit.
1133 Friday December 9, 2011. guy@alum.mit.edu.
1134 Summary for 1.2.1 libpcap release
1136 Fix typos in README.linux file.
1137 Clean up some compiler warnings.
1138 Fix Linux compile problems and tests for ethtool.h.
1139 Treat Debian/kFreeBSD and GNU/Hurd as systems with GNU
1141 Support 802.1 QinQ as a form of VLAN in filters.
1142 Treat "carp" as equivalent to "vrrp" in filters.
1143 Fix code generated for "ip6 protochain".
1144 Add some new link-layer header types.
1145 Support capturing NetFilter log messages on Linux.
1146 Clean up some error messages.
1147 Turn off monitor mode on exit for mac80211 interfaces on Linux.
1148 Fix problems turning monitor mode on for non-mac80211 interfaces
1150 Properly fail if /sys/class/net or /proc/net/dev exist but can't
1152 Fail if pcap_activate() is called on an already-activated
1153 pcap_t, and add a test program for that.
1154 Fix filtering in pcap-ng files.
1155 Don't build for PowerPC on Mac OS X Lion.
1156 Simplify handling of new DLT_/LINKTYPE_ values.
1157 Expand pcap(3PCAP) man page.
1159 Sunday July 24, 2011. mcr@sandelman.ca.
1160 Summary for 1.2 libpcap release
1161 All of the changes listed below for 1.1.1 and 1.1.2.
1162 Changes to error handling for pcap_findalldevs().
1163 Fix the calculation of the frame size in memory-mapped captures.
1164 Add a link-layer header type for STANAG 5066 D_PDUs.
1165 Add a link-layer type for a variant of 3GPP TS 27.010.
1166 Noted real nature of LINKTYPE_ARCNET.
1167 Add a link-layer type for DVB-CI.
1168 Fix configure-script discovery of VLAN acceleration support.
1169 see https://netoptimizer.blogspot.com/2010/09/tcpdump-vs-vlan-tags.html
1170 Linux, HP-UX, AIX, NetBSD and OpenBSD compilation/conflict fixes.
1171 Protect against including AIX 5.x's <net/bpf.h> having been included.
1172 Add DLT_DBUS, for raw D-Bus messages.
1173 Treat either EPERM or EACCES as "no soup for you".
1174 Changes to permissions on DLPI systems.
1175 Add DLT_IEEE802_15_4_NOFCS for 802.15.4 interfaces.
1177 Fri. August 6, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
1178 Summary for 1.1.2 libpcap release
1179 Return DLT_ values, not raw LINKTYPE_ values from
1180 pcap_datalink() when reading pcap-ng files
1181 Add support for "wlan ra" and "wlan ta", to check the RA and TA
1182 of WLAN frames that have them
1183 Don't crash if "wlan addr{1,2,3,4}" are used without 802.11
1185 Do filtering on USB and Bluetooth capturing
1186 On FreeBSD/SPARC64, use -fPIC - it's apparently necessary
1187 Check for valid port numbers (fit in a 16-bit unsigned field) in
1189 Reject attempts to put savefiles into non-blocking mode
1190 Check for "no such device" for the "get the media types" ioctl
1192 Improve error messages from bpf_open(), and let it do the error
1194 Return more specific errors from pcap_can_set_rfmon(); fix
1196 Update description fetching code for FreeBSD, fix code for
1198 Ignore /sys/net/dev files if we get ENODEV for them, not just
1199 ENXIO; fixes handling of bonding devices on Linux
1200 Fix check for a constant 0 argument to BPF_DIV
1201 Use the right version of ar when cross-building
1202 Free any filter set on a savefile when the savefile is closed
1203 Include the CFLAGS setting when configure was run in the
1205 Add support for 802.15.4 interfaces on Linux
1207 Thu. April 1, 2010. guy@alum.mit.edu.
1208 Summary for 1.1.1 libpcap release
1209 Update CHANGES to reflect more of the changes in 1.1.0.
1211 Fix shared library build on AIX.
1213 Thu. March 11, 2010. ken@netfunctional.ca/guy@alum.mit.edu.
1214 Summary for 1.1.0 libpcap release
1215 Add SocketCAN capture support
1216 Add Myricom SNF API support
1217 Update Endace DAG and ERF support
1218 Add support for shared libraries on Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX
1219 Build, install, and un-install shared libraries by default;
1220 don't build/install shared libraries on platforms we don't support
1221 Fix building from a directory other than the source directory
1222 Fix compiler warnings and builds on some platforms
1223 Update config.guess and config.sub
1224 Support monitor mode on mac80211 devices on Linux
1225 Fix USB memory-mapped capturing on Linux; it requires a new DLT_
1227 On Linux, scan /sys/class/net for devices if we have it; scan
1228 it, or /proc/net/dev if we don't have /sys/class/net, even if
1229 we have getifaddrs(), as it'll find interfaces with no
1231 Add limited support for reading pcap-ng files
1232 Fix BPF driver-loading error handling on AIX
1233 Support getting the full-length interface description on FreeBSD
1234 In the lexical analyzer, free up any addrinfo structure we got back
1236 Add support for BPF and libdlpi in OpenSolaris (and SXCE)
1237 Hyphenate "link-layer" everywhere
1238 Add /sys/kernel/debug/usb/usbmon to the list of usbmon locations
1239 In pcap_read_linux_mmap(), if there are no frames available, call
1240 poll() even if we're in non-blocking mode, so we pick up
1241 errors, and check for the errors in question.
1242 Note that poll() works on BPF devices is Snow Leopard
1243 If an ENXIO or ENETDOWN is received, it may mean the device has
1244 gone away. Deal with it.
1245 For BPF, raise the default capture buffer size to from 32k to 512k
1246 Support ps_ifdrop on Linux
1247 Added a bunch of #ifdef directives to make wpcap.dll (WinPcap) compile
1249 Changes to Linux mmapped captures.
1250 Fix bug where create_ring would fail for particular snaplen and
1251 buffer size combinations
1252 Update pcap-config so that it handles libpcap requiring
1253 additional libraries
1254 Add workaround for threadsafeness on Windows
1255 Add missing mapping for DLT_ENC <-> LINKTYPE_ENC
1256 DLT: Add DLT_CAN_SOCKETCAN
1257 DLT: Add Solaris ipnet
1258 Don't check for DLT_IPNET if it's not defined
1259 Add link-layer types for Fibre Channel FC-2
1260 Add link-layer types for Wireless HART
1261 Add link-layer types for AOS
1262 Add link-layer types for DECT
1263 Autoconf fixes (AIX, HP-UX, OSF/1, Tru64 cleanups)
1264 Install headers unconditionally, and include vlan.h/bluetooth.h if
1266 Autoconf fixes+cleanup
1267 Support enabling/disabling bluetooth (--{en,dis}able-bluetooth)
1268 Support disabling SITA support (--without-sita)
1269 Return -1 on failure to create packet ring (if supported but
1271 Fix handling of 'any' device, so that it can be opened, and no longer
1272 attempt to open it in Monitor mode
1273 Add support for snapshot length for USB Memory-Mapped Interface
1274 Fix configure and build on recent Linux kernels
1275 Fix memory-mapped Linux capture to support pcap_next() and
1277 Fixes for Linux USB capture
1278 DLT: Add DLT_LINUX_EVDEV
1279 DLT: Add DLT_GSMTAP_UM
1280 DLT: Add DLT_GSMTAP_ABIS
1282 Mon. October 27, 2008. ken@netfunctional.ca. Summary for 1.0.0 libpcap release
1283 Compile with IPv6 support by default
1284 Compile with large file support on by default
1285 Add pcap-config script, which deals with -I/-L flags for compiling
1288 DLT: Add AX25 (AX.25 w/KISS header)
1291 Variable length 802.11 header support
1292 X2E data type support
1293 SITA ACN Interface support - see README.sita
1294 Support for memory-mapped capture on Linux
1295 Support for zerocopy BPF on platforms that support it
1296 Support for setting buffer size when opening devices
1297 Support for setting monitor mode when opening 802.11 devices
1298 Better support for dealing with VLAN tagging/stripping on Linux
1299 Fix dynamic library support on OSX
1300 Return PCAP_ERROR_IFACE_NOT_UP if the interface isn't 'UP', so applications
1301 can print better diagnostic information
1302 Return PCAP_ERROR_PERM_DENIED if we don't have permission to open a device, so
1303 applications can tell the user they need to go play with permissions
1304 On Linux, ignore ENETDOWN so we can continue to capture packets if the
1305 interface goes down and comes back up again.
1306 On Linux, support new tpacket frame headers (2.6.27+)
1307 On Mac OS X, add scripts for changing permissions on /dev/bpf* and launchd plist
1308 On Solaris, support 'passive mode' on systems that support it
1309 Fixes to autoconf and general build environment
1310 Man page reorganization + cleanup
1311 Autogenerate VERSION numbers better
1313 Mon. September 10, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.8 libpcap release
1314 Change build process to put public libpcap headers into pcap subdir
1315 DLT: Add value for IPMI IPMB packets
1316 DLT: Add value for u10 Networks boards
1317 Require <net/pfvar.h> for pf definitions - allows reading of pflog formatted
1318 libpcap files on an OS other than where the file was generated
1320 Wed. April 25, 2007. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.6 libpcap release
1322 Put the public libpcap headers into a pcap subdirectory in both the
1323 source directory and the target include directory, and have include
1324 files at the top-level directory to include those headers, for
1325 backwards compatibility.
1326 Add Bluetooth support
1327 Add USB capturing support on Linux
1328 Add support for the binary USB sniffing interface in Linux
1329 Add support for new FreeBSD BIOCSDIRECTION ioctl
1330 Add additional filter operations for 802.11 frame types
1331 Add support for filtering on MTP2 frame types
1332 Propagate some changes from the main branch, so the x.9 branch has
1333 all the DLT_ and LINKTYPE_ values that the main branch does
1334 Reserved a DLT_ and SAVEFILE_ value for PPI (Per Packet Info)
1335 encapsulated packets
1336 Add LINKTYPE_ for IEEE 802.15.4, with address fields padded as done
1338 Add LINKTYPE_ value corresponding to DLT_IEEE802_16_MAC_CPS.
1339 Add DLT for IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) MAC Common Part Sublayer
1340 Add DLT for Bluetooth HCI UART transport layer
1341 When building a shared library, build with "-fPIC" on Linux to support x86_64
1342 Link with "$(CC) -shared" rather than "ld -shared" when building a
1343 ".so" shared library
1344 Add support for autoconf 2.60
1345 Fixes to discard unread packets when changing filters
1346 Changes to handle name changes in the DAG library resulting from
1347 switching to libtool.
1348 Add support for new DAG ERF types.
1349 Add an explicit "-ldag" when building the shared library, so the DAG
1350 library dependency is explicit.
1351 Mac OSX fixes for dealing with "wlt" devices
1352 Fixes in add_or_find_if() & pcap_findalldevs() to optimize generating
1354 Fixed a bug in pcap_open_live(). The return value of PacketSetHwFilter
1357 Tue. September 19, 2006. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.5 libpcap release
1359 Support for LAPD frames with vISDN
1360 Support for ERF on channelized T1/E1 cards via DAG API
1361 Fix capitalization that caused issues crossc compiling on Linux
1362 Better failure detection on PacketGetAdapterNames()
1363 Fixes for MPLS packet generation (link layer)
1364 OP_PACKET now matches the beginning of the packet, instead of
1365 beginning+link-layer
1366 Add DLT/LINKTYPE for carrying FRF.16 Multi-link Frame Relay
1367 Fix allocation of buffer for list of link-layer types
1368 Added a new DLT and LINKTYPE value for ARINC 653 Interpartition Communication Messages
1369 Fixed a typo in a DLT value: it should start with DLT_ and not LINKTYPE_
1370 Redefined DLT_CAN20B and LINKTYPE_CAN20B as #190 (as this is the right value for CAN).
1371 Added definition for DLT_A429 and LINKTYPE_A429 as #184.
1372 Added a new DLT and LINKTYPE value for CAN v2.0B frames.
1373 Add support for DLT_JUNIPER_VP.
1374 Don't double-count received packets on Linux systems that
1375 support the PACKET_STATISTICS getsockopt() argument on
1377 Add support for DLT_IEEE802_11 and DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO link
1379 Add support to build libpcap.lib and wpcap.dll under Cygnus and
1382 Mon. September 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.4 libpcap release
1384 Support for radiotap on Linux (Mike Kershaw)
1386 Support for additional Juniper link-layer types
1387 Fixes for filters on MPLS-encapsulated packets
1389 "pppoed" and "pppoes" filters added; the latter modifies later
1390 parts of the filter expression to look at the PPP headers and
1391 headers in the PPP payload
1393 Tue. July 5, 2005. ken@xelerance.com. Summary for 0.9.3 libpcap release
1395 Fixes for compiling on nearly every platform,
1396 including improved 64bit support
1398 Add support for sending packets
1399 OpenBSD pf format support
1400 IrDA capture (Linux only)
1402 Tue. March 30, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.3 release
1404 Fixed minor problem in gencode.c that would appear on 64-bit
1406 Version number is now sane.
1408 Mon. March 29, 2004. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 3.8.2 release
1410 updates for autoconf 2.5
1411 fixes for ppp interfaces for freebsd 4.1
1412 pcap gencode can generate code for 802.11, IEEE1394, and pflog.
1414 Wed. November 12, 2003. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.8 release
1416 added pcap_findalldevs()
1417 Win32 patches from NetGroup, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
1418 OpenBSD pf, DLT_PFLOG added
1419 Many changes to ATM support.
1420 lookup pcap_lookupnet()
1421 Added DLT_ARCNET_LINUX, DLT_ENC, DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO, DLT_SUNATM,
1422 DLT_IP_OVER_FC, DLT_FRELAY, others.
1423 Sigh. More AIX wonderfulness.
1425 Changes to API: pcap_next_ex(), pcap_breakloop(), pcap_dump_flush(),
1426 pcap_list_datalinks(), pcap_set_datalink(),
1427 pcap_lib_version(), pcap_datalink_val_to_name(),
1428 pcap_datalink_name_to_val(), new error returns.
1430 Tuesday, February 25, 2003. fenner@research.att.com. 0.7.2 release
1432 Support link types that use 802.2 always, never, and sometimes.
1433 Don't decrease the size of the BPF buffer from the default.
1434 Support frame relay.
1435 Handle 32-bit timestamps in DLPI, and pass the right buffer size.
1436 Handle Linux systems with modern kernel but without
1437 SOL_PACKET in the userland headers.
1438 Linux support for ARPHRD_RAWHDLC.
1439 Handle 32-bit timestamps in snoop.
1440 Support eg (Octane/O2xxx/O3xxx Gigabit) devices.
1441 Add new reserved DLT types.
1443 Monday October 23, 2001. mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. Summary for 0.7 release
1445 Added pcap_findalldevs() call to get list of interfaces in a MI way.
1447 pcap_stats() has been documented as to what its counters mean on
1450 Tuesday January 9, 2001. guy@alum.mit.edu. Summary for 0.6 release
1452 New Linux libpcap implementation, which, in 2.2 and later
1453 kernels, uses PF_PACKET sockets and supports kernel packet
1454 filtering (if compiled into the kernel), and supports the "any"
1455 device for capturing on all interfaces. Cleans up promiscuous
1456 mode better on pre-2.2 kernels, and has various other fixes
1457 (handles 2.4 ARPHRD_IEEE802_TR, handles ISDN devices better,
1458 doesn't show duplicate packets on loopback interface, etc.).
1460 Fixed HP-UX libpcap implementation to correctly get the PPA for
1461 an interface, to allow interfaces to be opened by interface name.
1463 libpcap savefiles have system-independent link-layer type values
1464 in the header, rather than sometimes platform-dependent DLT_
1465 values, to make it easier to exchange capture files between
1468 Non-standard capture files produced by some Linux tcpdumps, e.g.
1469 the one from Red Hat Linux 6.2 and later, can now be read.
1471 Updated autoconf stock files.
1473 Filter expressions can filter on VLAN IDs and various OSI
1474 protocols, and work on Token Ring (with non-source-routed
1477 "pcap_open_dead()" added to allow compiling filter expressions
1478 to pcap code without opening a capture device or capture file.
1480 Header files fixed to allow use in C++ programs.
1482 Removed dependency on native headers for packet layout.
1483 Removed Linux specific headers that were shipped.
1485 Security fixes: Strcpy replaced with strlcpy, sprintf replaced
1488 Fixed bug that could cause subsequent "pcap_compile()"s to fail
1489 erroneously after one compile failed.
1491 Assorted other bug fixes.
1493 README.aix and README.linux files added to describe
1494 platform-specific issues.
1496 "getifaddrs()" rather than SIOCGIFCONF used, if available.
1498 v0.5 Sat Jun 10 11:09:15 PDT 2000
1501 - Brought in KAME IPv6/IPsec bpf compiler.
1503 - Support added for OpenBSD DLT_LOOP and BSD/OS DLT_C_HDLC (Cisco HDLC),
1504 and changes to work around different BSDs having different DLT_ types
1505 with the same numeric value.
1507 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
1508 - Building outside the source code tree fixed.
1509 - Changed to write out time stamps with 32-bit seconds and microseconds
1510 fields, regardless of whether those fields are 32 bits or 64 bits in
1511 the OS's native "struct timeval".
1512 - Changed "pcap_lookupdev()" to dynamically grow the buffer into which
1513 the list of interfaces is read as necessary in order to hold the
1516 Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
1517 - Added a new "pcap_compile_nopcap()", which lets you compile a filter
1518 expression into a BPF program without having an open live capture or
1521 v0.4 Sat Jul 25 12:40:09 PDT 1998
1523 - Fix endian problem with DLT_NULL devices. From FreeBSD via Bill
1524 Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
1526 - Fix alignment problem with FDDI under DLPI. This was causing core
1527 dumps under Solaris.
1529 - Added configure options to disable flex and bison. Resulted from a
1530 bug report by barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett). Also added
1531 options to disable gcc and to force a particular packet capture type.
1533 - Added support for Fore ATM interfaces (qaa and fa) under IRIX. Thanks
1534 to John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1536 - Change Linux PPP and SLIP to use DLT_RAW since the kernel does not
1537 supply any "link layer" data.
1539 - Change Linux to use SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl to determine link layer type.
1540 Thanks to Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
1542 - Change IRIX PPP to use DLT_RAW since the kernel does not supply any
1545 - Modified to support the new BSD/OS 2.1 PPP and SLIP link layer header
1548 - Added some new SGI snoop interface types. Thanks to Steve Alexander
1549 (sca@refugee.engr.sgi.com)
1551 - Fixes for HP-UX 10.20 (which is similar to HP-UX 9). Thanks to
1552 Richard Allen (ra@hp.is) and Steinar Haug (sthaug@nethelp.no)
1554 - Fddi supports broadcast as reported by Jeff Macdonald
1555 (jeff@iacnet.com). Also correct ieee802 and arcnet.
1557 - Determine Linux pcap buffer size at run time or else it might not be
1558 big enough for some interface types (e.g. FDDI). Thanks to Jes
1559 Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
1561 - Fix some linux alignment problems.
1563 - Document promisc argument to pcap_open_live(). Reported by Ian Marsh
1566 - Support Metricom radio packets under Linux. Thanks to Kevin Lai
1567 (laik@gunpowder.stanford.edu)
1569 - Bind to interface name under Linux to avoid packets from multiple
1570 interfaces on multi-homed hosts. Thanks to Kevin Lai
1571 (laik@gunpowder.stanford.edu)
1573 - Change L_SET to SEEK_SET for HP-UX. Thanks to Roland Roberts
1574 (rroberts@muller.com)
1576 - Fixed an uninitialized memory reference found by Kent Vander Velden
1577 (graphix@iastate.edu)
1579 - Fixed lex pattern for IDs to allow leading digits. As reported by
1580 Theo de Raadt (deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org)
1582 - Fixed Linux include file problems when using GNU libc.
1584 - Ifdef ARPHRD_FDDI since not all versions of the Linux kernel have it.
1585 Reported reported by Eric Jacksch (jacksch@tenebris.ca)
1587 - Fixed bug in pcap_dispatch() that kept it from returning on packet
1590 - Changed ISLOOPBACK() macro when IFF_LOOPBACK isn't available to check
1591 for "lo" followed by an eos or digit (newer versions of Linux
1592 apparently call the loopback "lo" instead of "lo0").
1594 - Fixed Linux networking include files to use ints instead of longs to
1595 avoid problems with 64 bit longs on the alpha. Thanks to Cristian
1596 Gafton (gafton@redhat.com)
1598 v0.3 Sat Nov 30 20:56:27 PST 1996
1600 - Added Linux support.
1602 - Fixed savefile bugs.
1604 - Solaris x86 fix from Tim Rylance (t.rylance@elsevier.nl)
1606 - Add support for bpf kernel port filters.
1608 - Remove duplicate atalk protocol table entry. Thanks to Christian
1609 Hopps (chopps@water.emich.edu)
1611 - Fixed pcap_lookupdev() to ignore nonexistent devices. This was
1612 reported to happen under BSD/OS by David Vincenzetti
1613 (vince@cryptonet.it)
1615 - Avoid solaris compiler warnings. Thanks to Bruce Barnett
1616 (barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com)
1618 v0.2.1 Sun Jul 14 03:02:26 PDT 1996
1620 - Fixes for HP-UX 10. Thanks in part to Thomas Wolfram
1621 (wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de) and Rick Jones (raj@hpisrdq.cup.hp.com)
1623 - Added support for SINIX. Thanks to Andrej Borsenkow
1624 (borsenkow.msk@sni.de)
1626 - Fixes for AIX (although this system is not yet supported). Thanks to
1627 John Hawkinson (jhawk@mit.edu)
1629 - Use autoconf's idea of the top level directory in install targets.
1630 Thanks to John Hawkinson.
1632 - Add missing autoconf packet capture result message. Thanks to Bill
1633 Fenner (fenner@parc.xerox.com)
1635 - Fixed padding problems in the pf module.
1637 - Fixed some more alignment problems on the alpha.
1639 - Added explicit netmask support. Thanks to Steve Nuchia
1640 (steve@research.oknet.com)
1642 - Fixed to handle raw ip addresses such as 0.0.0.1 without "left
1645 - Add "sca" keyword (for DEC cluster services) as suggested by Terry
1646 Kennedy (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu)
1648 - Add "atalk" keyword as suggested by John Hawkinson.
1650 - Add "igrp" keyword.
1652 - Fixed HID definition in grammar.y to be a string, not a value.
1654 - Use $CC when checking gcc version. Thanks to Carl Lindberg
1655 (carl_lindberg@blacksmith.com)
1657 - Removed obsolete reference to pcap_immediate() from the man page.
1658 Michael Stolarchuk (mts@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu)
1660 - DLT_NULL has a 4 byte family header. Thanks to Jeffrey Honig
1663 v0.2 Sun Jun 23 02:28:42 PDT 1996
1665 - Add support for HP-UX. Resulted from code contributed by Tom Murray
1666 (tmurray@hpindck.cup.hp.com) and Philippe-Andri Prindeville
1667 (philipp@res.enst.fr)
1669 - Update INSTALL with a reminder to install include files. Thanks to
1670 Mark Andrews (mandrews@aw.sgi.com)
1672 - Fix bpf compiler alignment bug on the alpha.
1674 - Use autoconf to detect architectures that can't handle misaligned
1677 - Added loopback support for snoop. Resulted from report Steve
1678 Alexander (sca@engr.sgi.com)
1680 v0.1 Fri Apr 28 18:11:03 PDT 1995
1682 - Fixed compiler and optimizer bugs. The BPF filter engine uses unsigned
1683 comparison operators, while the code generator and optimizer assumed
1684 signed semantics in several places. Thanks to Charlie Slater
1685 (cslater@imatek.com) for pointing this out.
1687 - Removed FDDI ifdef's, they aren't really needed. Resulted from report
1688 by Gary Veum (veum@boa.gsfc.nasa.gov).
1690 - Add pcap-null.c which allows offline use of libpcap on systems that
1691 don't support live package capture. This feature resulting from a
1692 request from Jan van Oorschot (j.p.m.voorschot@et.tudelft.nl).
1694 - Make bpf_compile() reentrant. Fix thanks to Pascal Hennequin
1695 (Pascal.Hennequin@hugo.int-evry.fr).
1697 - Port to GNU autoconf.
1699 - Fix pcap-dlpi.c to work with isdn. Resulted from report by Flemming
1700 Johansen (fsj@csd.cri.dk).
1702 - Handle multi-digit interface unit numbers (aka ppa's) under dlpi.
1703 Resulted from report by Daniel Ehrlich (ehrlich@cse.psu.edu).
1705 - Fix pcap-dlpi.c to work in non-promiscuous mode. Resulted from report
1706 by Jeff Murphy (jcmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu).
1708 - Add support for "long jumps". Thanks to Jeffrey Mogul
1711 - Fix minor problems when compiling with BDEBUG as noticed by Scott
1712 Bertilson (scott@unet.umn.edu).
1714 - Declare sys_errlist "const char *const" to avoid problems under
1715 FreeBSD. Resulted from report by jher@eden.com.
1717 v0.0.6 Fri Apr 28 04:07:13 PDT 1995
1719 - Add missing variable declaration missing from 0.0.6
1721 v0.0.5 Fri Apr 28 00:22:21 PDT 1995
1723 - Workaround for problems when pcap_read() returns 0 due to the timeout
1726 v0.0.4 Thu Apr 20 20:41:48 PDT 1995
1728 - Change configuration to not use gcc v2 flags with gcc v1.
1730 - Fixed a bug in pcap_next(); if pcap_dispatch() returns 0, pcap_next()
1731 should also return 0. Thanks to Richard Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu).
1733 - Fixed configure to test for snoop before dlpi to avoid problems under
1734 IRIX 5. Thanks to J. Eric Townsend (jet@abulafia.genmagic.com).
1736 - Hack around deficiency in Ultrix's make.
1738 - Fix two bugs related to the Solaris pre-5.3.2 bufmod bug; handle
1739 savefiles that have more than snapshot bytes of data in them (so we
1740 can read old savefiles) and avoid writing such files.
1742 - Added checkioctl which is used with gcc to check that the
1743 "fixincludes" script has been run.
1745 v0.0.3 Tue Oct 18 18:13:46 PDT 1994
1747 - Fixed configure to test for snoop before dlpi to avoid problems under
1748 IRIX 5. Thanks to J. Eric Townsend (jet@abulafia.genmagic.com).
1750 v0.0.2 Wed Oct 12 20:56:37 PDT 1994
1752 - Implement timeout in the dlpi pcap_open_live(). Thanks to Richard
1755 - Determine pcap link type from dlpi media type. Resulted from report
1756 by Mahesh Jethanandani (mahesh@npix.com).
1758 v0.0.1 Fri Jun 24 14:50:57 PDT 1994
1760 - Fixed bug in nit_setflags() in pcap-snit.c. The streams ioctl timeout
1761 wasn't being initialized sometimes resulting in an "NIOCSFLAGS:
1762 Invalid argument" error under OSF/1. Reported by Matt Day
1763 (mday@artisoft.com) and Danny Mitzel (dmitzel@whitney.hitc.com).
1765 - Turn on FDDI support by default.
1767 v0.0 Mon Jun 20 19:20:16 PDT 1994
1771 - Fixed bug with greater/less keywords, reported by Mark Andrews
1772 (mandrews@alias.com).
1774 - Fix bug where '|' was defined as BPF_AND instead of BPF_OR, reported
1775 by Elan Amir (elan@leeb.cs.berkeley.edu).
1777 - Machines with little-endian byte ordering are supported thanks to
1780 - Add hack for version 2.3 savefiles which don't have caplen and len
1781 swapped thanks to Vern Paxson.
1783 - Added "&&" and "||" aliases for "and" and "or" thanks to Vern Paxson.
1785 - Added length, inbound and outbound keywords.